For example when I first came to high school I would always ask people for stuff mostly food(ik it sounds dumb but I had the mentality of hey uk what it’s free so it’s cool right?) but one day I got a reality check when one of my friends said something along the lines of bro have some self respect u gotta stop begging for stuff like are u really gonna get full from the little pieces ppl give u and I remember him saying that in front of a ton of people and at the time, in that moment I felt super embarrassed like damn why’d u gotta say all that and in front of all these ppl too. What he said was probably a partly a joke but I took those words to heart because first off it was super embarrassing and second i was thinking to myself is that how ppl perceived me?
Anyway what stuck to me the most from that entire moment was two words “self respect” and that stuck to me bcz like what did he mean by that anyway I did some research and I realized as I delved into a bunch of that stuff about bad traits and stuff I didn’t even realize is that I had soooo many bad traits and qualities that I didn’t even know were bad and I was hurting myself, my relationships with my friends and other people and my image by not learning all of this stuff. Anyway u guys got any other examples or just advice for me or for others?